Private Lives and Public Affairs · the Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France
- Authors
- Maza, Sarah C.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Tags
- history
- ISBN
- 9780520201637
- Date
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.30 MB
- Lang
- en
From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza argues that the reporting of these private scandals had a decisive effect on the way in which the French public came to understand public issues in the years before the Revolution.